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At the heart of Touching a Nerve is the question of what happens when we accept that everything we feel, think and experience stems not from an immaterial soul but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains. Patricia Churchland, one of the pioneers of neurophilosophy, explains what the latest brain research into consciousness, sensory experience, memory and free will can tell us about the enduring philosophical and ethical questions about what the self is, how our personalities are created and what determines our decisions and behaviour. As Churchland reveals, once we accept that our brains determine everything about who we are and how we experience the world, neuroscience offers new, critical insights into a fascinating range of ethical and philosophical dilemmas.ights into a fascinating range of ethical and philosophical dilemmas.
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Title: Touching a Nerve( The Self as Brain) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: PatriciaSmithChurchland <>Publisher: W.W.Norton&Company
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I have spent a quarter century writing about the brain and yet I am rarely aware that I even have one. In this remarkably moving and deeply personal book, Patricia Churchland, one of the founders of the field of neurophilosophy, reminds us all that we not only have a brain and how it works, but she plumbs the depths of philosophy's biggest questions from a neuroscience perspective and thereby opens new vistas about ourselves and our humanity. --Michael Shermer, publisher of "Skeptic" magazine and author of "The Believing Brain"
...the philosopher Patricia Churchland defies her neuro-fundamentalist reputation to present a supremely measured, sensible and readable account of the brain's role in making us who we are --Julian Baggini, Books of the Year 2013, The Observer
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0393058328
- ISBN 13 9780393058321
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
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